B6 + $300 buys iPod at SFO

Text and link from Engadget

Apparently they’re now selling digital cameras and iPods via the vending machines at San Francisco International Airport (isn’t this more of a Japanese thing?), right alongside typical airport vending machine fare like KitKat Bites and Jelly Belly jellybeans (which means that all those hours we spent in college trying to figure out to use a coat hanger to, um, extract a bag of Chex Mix from the vending machine in our dorm will be put to good use on our trip to SF next month). Best part, at least if you’re planning on doing things the legal way, is that you don’t actually need a stack of 200 perfectly crisp dollar bills to buy an iPod mini, the machine does takes credit cards.

Samsung V740 says "Hello Motto"?

Taken from Engadget =p

Ah, the time honored formula—if you can’t beat ‘em, knock ‘em off, (and hard, if possible). Afterall, it seems to be working alright for all the iPod and PSP knockoffs of the world, so why not let our friends over at Samsung take a swipe at a certain popular cellphone with their new V740? Sure, it spares nearly no line in keeping it real, but we’re not about to go on record as saying we wouldn’t carry one—especially if it was a smartphone.

Cingular Launches Samsung P207 with Speech to Text

From Mobile Tracker


Cingular launched the Samsung P207 today, confirming rumors that the jet black flip-phone was close to market. Priced in the mid-range at $79.99 with activation, the Samsung P207 packs a unqiue feature: Speech-to-text conversion.

Features of the Samsung P207:

• Speech-to-text technology that allows text messages and emails to be spoken.
• 176 x 220pixel 262K color display
• EDGE
• VGA camera with video

Look for a review of the P207 on MobileTracker soon.